Department of Medieval Art
The Department is concerned with research into and interpretation of the medieval art of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in its international contexts and broader cultural connections.
Staff
PhDr. Klára Benešovská, CSc. (Head of the Department), Mgr. Helena Dáňová, Ph.D.Prof., PhDr. Ivo Hlobil, CSc., PhDr. Jan Chlíbec, Ph.D., PhDr. Jan Klípa, Ph.D., PhDr. Kateřina Kubínová, Ph.D., Mgr. Lenka Panušková, Ph.D., PhDr. Milada Studničková
Postdocs / Scholarship holders
Francesco Lovino, Ph.D. (University of Padova), Programme in Support of the Pesperspective Human Resources – Support of Post-doctoral Researchers at the institutes of the CAS 2015-2017: The Heritage of Nikodim P. Kondakov in the Experiences of André Grabar and the Seminarium Kondakovianum.
Jana Gajdošová (University of Cambridge), Josef Dobrovsky Fellowship 2015: Peter Parler and the First Bohemian Net Vault.
Department publications
Research projects
- Projekt Fond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung-Österreich P26688. Katalog: Mitteleuropäische Schulen IX. Böhmen - Mähren - Schlesien - Ungarn (ca. 1450 - 1500), in cooperation with Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek-Handschriftensammlung, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien). Milada Studničková
- Regional cooperation: Gotické a raně renesanční umění ve východních Čechách do roku 1550, projekt reg. č. R300331401 [Gothic and Early Renaissance in the East Bohemia until 1550]. Ivo Hlobil, Helena Dáňová
- cooperation in the Excelence Project Nr.. P405/12/G148: Kulturní kódy a jejich proměny v husitském období [Cultural Codes and Their Changes in the Hussite Era] 2012–2018. Milada Studničková
- "Transferts artistiques dans l’Europe gothique des XIIe à XVIe siècles". A project of INHA Paris in cooperation with Universities in Toulouse-le Mirail and in Liege . Project finished in 2013 with a collective monograph Les transferts artistiques dans l’Europe gothique. Repenser la circulation des artistes, des œuvres, des themes et de savoir-faire (XIIe – XIVe siècle)” Sous la direction de Jacques Dubois – Jean-Marie Guillouët – Benoît van den Bossche. Coordination par Annamaria Ersek, Paris 2014. Klára Benešovská
Grant projects
2015
Klára Benešovská
Imago, Imagines: Metamorphoses of their Function in the Medieval Bohemian Lands, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), 13-39192S, 2013-2017
Kateřina Kubínová
Evangeliary Cim 2. The manuscript among regions and centuries of medieval Europe, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), P 409/ 13-18261S, 2013–2015
2014
Klára Benešovská
Imago, Imagines: Metamorphoses of their Function in the Medieval Bohemian Lands, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), 13-39192S, 2013-2017
Kateřina Kubínová
Evangeliary Cim 2. The manuscript among regions and centuries of medieval Europe, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), P 409/ 13-18261S, 2013–2015
2013
Klára Benešovská
Imago, Imagines: Metamorphoses of their Function in the Medieval Bohemian Lands, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), 13-39192S, 2013-2017
Kateřina Kubínová
Evangeliary Cim 2. The manuscript among regions and centuries of medieval Europe, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), P 409/ 13-18261S, 2013–2015
2012
Jan Chlíbec
The Bernardine “Sun” over the Czech Lands – the Significance of Bernardine Aesthetics, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), P409/12/2302, 2012-2014
Ivo Hlobil
Morava a svět. Umění v otevřeném multikulturním prostoru. [Moravia and the World. Art within an Opened Multicultural Space], cooperation in the research of the Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc, MSM 6198959225
2011
Lenka Panušková
Velislav Bible and the Iconographic Influence of the West-European Book Painting on Bohemian Illumination.
head of the project: PhDr. Tomáš Gaudek, Foundation of the Charles University (GA UK), Project Nr. 84709/2009, 2009–2011
2010
Lenka Panušková
Velislav Bible and the Iconographic Influence of the West-European Book Painting on Bohemian Illumination.
head of the project: PhDr. Tomáš Gaudek, Foundation of the Charles University (GA UK), Project Nr. 84709/2009, 2009–2011
2009
Lenka Panušková
Velislav Bible and the Iconographic Influence of the West-European Book Painting on Bohemian Illumination.
head of the project: PhDr. Tomáš Gaudek, Foundation of the Charles University (GA UK), Project Nr. 84709/2009, 2009–2011
2008
The Master of the Michle Madonna and the Beginning of the European-wide Significance of Bohemian Sculpture under the Luxembourg Dynasty in the 14th Century, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), Nr. 408/06/1420 2006–2008
2007
The Master of the Michle Madonna and the Beginning of the European-wide Significance of Bohemian Sculpture under the Luxembourg Dynasty in the 14th Century, Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), Nr. 408/06/1420 2006–2008
Hana Hlaváčková
Catalogue of manuscripts illuminated in Bohemia in the time of Charles IV (1346–1378), Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), Nr. 408/05/1016 2005–2007
Works of Italian sculptors active in the Czech lands in the Renaissance period, Czech Science Foundation, (GA ČR), No. 408/05/2179 2005–2007
Exhibition projects
2015
30 Years Without Krása, Window Gallery ÚDU, March - October 2015 (Lenka Panušková)
2014
Gotische Löwenmadonnen, Bergbau- und Gotikmuseum Leogang, 5th June - 31th August 2014 (author of the exhibition: Ivo Hlobil)
Gothic Madonnas on Lion, Arcidiecézní muzeum Olomouc, 13th February - 11th May 2014 (author of the exhibition: Ivo Hlobil)
2013
Všemu světu na útěchu. Sochařství a malířství na Chomutovsku a Kadaňsku 1350-1590 [For the Consolation of the Whole World. Sculpture and Painting in Comutov and Kadaň Region 1350-1590], Regional Museum in Chomutov, long-term exposition of the medieval art http://muzeum-cv.net/index.php/aktualne/stale-expozice/radnice (author of the exhibition: Helena Dáňová)
Frömmigkeit in Schrift und Bild. Illuminierte Sammelindulgenzen im mittelalterlichen Mühlhausen, Das Stadtarchiv Mühlhausen, 2013-2014 (Milada Studničková)
Umsonst ist der Tod. Alltag und Frömmigkeit am Vorabend der Reformation, Mühlhausen, Museum am Lindenbühl, 29th September 2013 - 13th April 2014.2014 (Milada Studničková)
Art in An Unsettled Time. Bohemian Book Painting Before Gutenberg, Window Gallery ÚDU, December 2013 - May 2014 (Milada Studničková)
2012
Kunst und Kultur zur Zeit der Jagiellonen, GASK, Kutná Hora, Warsaw, Postdam, 2012 - 2013 (cooperation on the catalogue: Milada Studničková, Ivo Hlobil)
2011
Svatá Anežka Česká - princezna a řeholnice [St. Agnes of Bohemia - Princess and Nun], National Gallery in Prague, Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, 25th November 2011 - 25th March 2012 (cooperation on the catalogue: Lenka Panušková, Milada Studničková)
2010
A Royal Marriage. Eliška Přemyslovna and John of Luxembourg, 1310, City Gallery Prague, City Museum Prague, Prague. 4 November 2010 – 6 February 2011 (author: Klára Benešovská, cooperation Hana Hlaváčková, Lenka Panušková, Zuzana Všetečková,)
The exhibition was awarded with the Prize of the Icom National Commitee Czech Republic for the international benefit.
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Rožmberkové. Rod českých velmožů a jeho cesta dějinami [The Rosenbergs. The House of Czech Magnates and Its Way Through the History], National Gallery in Prague, Valdštejn Riding-Hall, 19th May - 21th August 2011 (cooperation: Jan Chlíbec, Milada Studničková, Zuzana Všetečková)
Král, který létal. Moravsko-slezské pomezí v kontextu středoevropského prostoru doby Jana Lucemburského [King, who Flew. Moravian and Silesian Borderland in the Context of the Central European Area of John of Luxemburg], Ostrava, Museum of Ostrava, 15th December 2010 – March 2011 (Spolupráce: Ivo Hlobil)
2007
Poet and King. Bohuslav Hasištejnský of Lobkowicz in the mirror of the Jagiellon era, Prague Castle, Prague, 28th February – 1st July 2007 (cooperation Jan Chlíbec, Ivo Hlobil)
Conferences
2015
Více Krásy: Kolokvium ke třicátému výročí úmrtí Josefa Krásy [More of Krása: Colloqium to the 30th anniversary of Josef Krása Death], Academic conference centre, Prague, 14th October 2015 (Klára Benešovská)
2014
Circulation as a Factor of Cultural Aggregation: Relics, Ideas and Cities in the Middle Ages.
Telč, 29. - 3. 5. 2014. (in cooperation with the Centre of Early Medieval Studies, Seminar of Art History, Masaryk University in Brno and Section d´historie de l´Art Université de Lausanne; Klára Benešovská)
2013
Art in the Unsettled Time. Bohemian Book Painting Before Gutenberg (ca. 1380–1450), Academic conference centre, Prague, 12th - 14th November 2013 (Milada Studničková)
2011
Royal Court and the City, Academic conference centre, Prague, 3th - 5th February 2011 (Klára Benešovská, Lenka Panušková)
2007
Bohuslav Hasištejnský of Lobkowicz and the Culture of His Times, Prague, Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 25 May 2007 (in cooperation with the Office of the President of the Republic and National Museum in Prague)
Middle Ages in Motion
24.11.
Zdeněk Žalud (Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích),
Rozkvět astrologie ve střední Evropě v 15. století [Increase of Astrology in the Central Europe in the 15th Century]
29. 9.
Jana Gajdošová, University of Cambridge
Vaulting Small Spaces: The Innovative Design of the Old Town Bridge Tower Vault
23.6.
Christoph Brachmann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The “Naumburg Master”: A German Myth Reconsidered
26.5.
František Záruba, Katedra dějin křesťanského umění KTF UK
Aula magna – velký hradní sál [Aula Magna - A Large Chamber Room]
31.3.
Kateřina Kubínová, Ústav dějin umění AV ČR
Římský konzul nebo sv. Petr? Slonovinová destička na vazbě evangeliáře Cim 2 [A Roman Consul or St Peter? The Ivory Relief of the Gospels Cim 2]
27.1.
Zuzana Frantová, Universita v Lausanne a Seminář dějin umění FF MU
Zlatnictví a diplomacie západořímského dvora [Goldsmithery and Diplomacy of the Western Roman Court]
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Current projects
Series of lectures "The Middle Ages in Motion"